What is your personal preference and why? I've owned both and currently have a mahogany kit, both 12, 14, 20, kept the mahogany over the birch kit because it has an international 12 and the birch kit had a metric 12. I find the mahogany to be a bit fatter and the birch surprisingly bright for such a thin shelled kit. What's your experience?
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Vintage premier mahogany or birch?
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I like the Mahogany shells better. Warm like home.
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Yes, I have both but the mahogany has a nicer bottom end on the toms and resonates really well. In fact my Mahogany Prems are my favourite toms of all my kits.
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Mahogany! Fatter, warmer and coincidentally, from my favorite era for Premier. The birch are great as well, but a bit bonky by comparison.
The are very few top quality pure african mahohany shells available. Most are just the inner ply, or inner and outer plies only, usually with a big rotten slab of poplar in the middle. The Prems are 3 plies of the same top grade real mahogany (not lauan).
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Don't find them discernably different. I've had several over the years and currently have one with a mix of both birch and mahogany shells.
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